OMAR Khayym (d. circa 1123). Rubiyt ... rendered into English verse by Edward Fitzgerald with an accompaniment of drawings by Elihu Vedder. Boston & London: the Riverside Press of Cambridge, Mass. for Houghton, Mifflin & Co. of Boston and Bernard Quaritch of London, 1884. 2 (392 x 325mm). Mounted on guards throughout. 'Albertype' frontispiece, decorative title, sub-titles and text (each page with surrounding illustration), all after Vedder. Original mid-brown decorated cloth, the upper cover and spine blocked and gilt and dark brown from a design by Vedder, t.e.g., original decorated dust-jacket (some neat repairs to dust-jacket). Provenance: Francis Kettaneh (booklabel). Potter 201.

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OMAR Khayym (d. circa 1123). Rubiyt ... rendered into English verse by Edward Fitzgerald with an accompaniment of drawings by Elihu Vedder. Boston & London: the Riverside Press of Cambridge, Mass. for Houghton, Mifflin & Co. of Boston and Bernard Quaritch of London, 1884. 2 (392 x 325mm). Mounted on guards throughout. 'Albertype' frontispiece, decorative title, sub-titles and text (each page with surrounding illustration), all after Vedder. Original mid-brown decorated cloth, the upper cover and spine blocked and gilt and dark brown from a design by Vedder, t.e.g., original decorated dust-jacket (some neat repairs to dust-jacket). Provenance: Francis Kettaneh (booklabel). Potter 201.

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Seven other editions of the Rubiyt, translated or illustrated by Americans (VEDDER [illustrator]. Boston: 1888, small 2 [Potter 202]; Boston: 1894, small 4 [Potter 203]. John PAYNE [translator]. London: Villon Society, 1898, number 671 of an unstated limitation, 8, finely bound in contemporary green morocco by Charles Meunier [Potter 360]; London: Villon Society, 1898, number 244 of an unstated limitation, 8, original vellum [Potter 360]; London: Villon Society, 1898, number 37 of ?75 large paper copies, large 8, original vellum-backed boards [Potter 360]. Arthur SZYK [illustrator]. New York: Heritage Press, 1940, 4, original leather gilt, publisher's box; New York: Heritage Press, 1946, 4, original cloth-backed boards, slip-case). (8)

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